Yale Law School

lillian goldman law library

in memory of Sol Goldman

annual report 20132014

message from the director

I am delighted to introduce the Lillian Goldman

many other constituents. For example, the number

Law Librarys 2013-14 annual report, edited for the

of reference transactions increased to well over 4500

fourth year by Teresa Miguel-Stearns who drew on

requests this year, and over a fourth of these requests

contributions from a score of librarians. This was a

were from our faculty. These include approximately

particularly successful year for the library marked

300 faculty requests for empirical research support

by continued collaboration among and between

and are in addition to the more than 7500 faculty

librarians, staff, faculty and users to support

requests for documents. The current report provides

the information needs of the Yale Law School

some examples illustrating the range of reference

community. I highlight a few of the librarys most

activity behind this data.

notable accomplishments here and encourage you

to read this report for more details.

Strong collections, regardless of format, remain

critical to supporting our mission and are a key

Near the close of the 2013-14 academic year, the

goal in our new strategic plan. In this regard, we

library completed a new strategic plan intended

expanded both our print and online resources

to guide us over the next three to four years. This

significantly over the past year. Perhaps the single

was a joint enterprise led by the team of librarians

most notable print acquisition of the year was

who were informed by input from the librarys

the Kuttner Institutes library of medieval canon

constituents and a thorough survey of changes

law, which returned to Yale from Germany. This

taking place in legal education, libraries, and the

collection supplements an already strong Roman

information world. The six overarching goals

law collection and provides our users with one of the

outlined in this plan are intended to keep us on

most comprehensive collections of medieval canon

track towards our unchanged vision: To be the best

law in the world. Also, thanks to the continued

academic law library in the world. A full copy of the

generosity of the Ruebhausen Committee, we were

plan is included in this annual report. Its reassuring

able to add another round of selections from the

to see that our most notable accomplishments over

unsurpassed English rare law book collection of

the past year fit neatly into these larger goals.

Anthony Taussig, further bolstering our ability to

support the most productive legal historians in the

design
Yale Printing & Publishing Services
cover image
Giovannelli, Antonio. Diploma issued
by the University of Bologna in 1661,
awarding Antonio Giovannelli a doctoral
degree in civil and canon law. From
the Rare Book Collection of the Lillian
Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.
photography
Shana Jackson, Teresa Miguel-Stearns,
Harold Shapiro, Tyson Streeter,
Mike Widener

Fittingly, our librarys number one goal is to Provide

world. Likewise, the Ruebhausen Fund enabled us

highly valued, relevant services to our faculty and

to work collaboratively with Yale University Library

students. Weve always taken pride in offering a

to be among the very few libraries to acquire the

wide range of relevant services, but placing this goal

entire NAACP archives in digital format, supporting

at the top gives it the prominence it deserves in

the current work of one of our faculty, as well as

contemporary libraries. Thus, we are especially proud

providing online access to this rich trove of materials

that this year the Yale Law Womens Staff Excellence

to users across the Yale campus. More contemporary

Award was given to the entire law library staff

notable acquisitions included acquiring a law school-

recognizing its passion and dedication in serving

wide subscription to the New York Times online,

the YLS community. Our student Library Advisory

and continuing to be a leader in the acquisition of

Council, now in its second year of operation, helps

print monographs covering all areas of interest to

us prioritize student services based on their value

the Yale Law School community. One measure of

to our community, and it also helps us determine

the relevance of these acquisitions is the continued

those services and programs that may no longer

upward trend in our circulation data, showing that

have value, as student needs evolve. Readers of this

the circulation of our print monograph collection

report will discover the dazzling array of courses,

increased from approximately 22,000 in FY 13

workshops, programs, and services offered over the

transactions to over 24,000 in the past year, so that

past year and get a sense of the breadth and depth of

print monographs now claim nearly 60% of all our

support our library provides to students as well as its

circulation activity for the past year.

awards
awards

We also are proud of the expanded access to

digital legal resources we were able to secure for our

Yale Law Women Staff Excellence Award (2014)

alumni users over the past year with the licensing

AALL Government Documents Special Interest

Section grant to attend the AALL Leadership
Academy

of HeinOnlines legal periodical database for alumni.

Additionally, the continued growth of our Legal
Scholarship Repository provides free online access

Julie Krishnaswami (2014)

for alumni and other users worldwide to Yale Law

AALL Innovations In Technology Award

School scholarship. This database now includes

eYLS (2013)

over 6,000 faculty and a smaller number of student

AALL Emerging Leader Award

papers, as well as the complete runs of four Yale Law

Jason Eiseman (2013)

School journals. Over one million papers were down-

AALL Law Library Publications Award, Print

Division

loaded from this site just over the past year, and a

Emergency Flip Guide (2013)

new feature was added to its front page depicting

AALL FCIL-SIS Reynolds & Flores Publication

Award

real-time downloads from around the world. We also

published several new oral histories in the Yale Law

Teresa Miguel-Stearns (2013)

Librarys Oral History Series covering interviews with

Lillian Goldman Law Library Public Interest Trivia

Team defeated YLS Student Team (2014)

former Yale Law School deans and senior faculty

members. To make this resource more widely available, we added them to our repositorys database.

Clockwise from top:

Other notable accomplishments for the year range

Jason Eiseman receives the prestigious AALL Emerging Leader

Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law
Librarians.

from the elimination of our cataloging backlog and

the reorganization of staff to provide more efficient

The Lillian Goldman Law Library Public Interest Trivia Team

defeated the YLS Student Team for the fourth consecutive year to
maintain the trophy, on display at the Reference Desk. Pictured
L-R Back: Jason Eiseman, Ryan Harrington ; Front: Fred
Shapiro, Shana Jackson, Cate Kellett.

processes and handle more service demands in both

the acquisitions and access services departments, to
the launching of the Litchfield Law School Sources
portal and the publication of the librarys first iPad
application. Like all of our major accomplishments,
these achievements are the result of librarians,
staff, faculty, and students all working together to
make the library a responsive force supporting the
work of the remarkably brilliant, diverse, and highly
productive Yale Law School community.
We hope this report helps give readers an
understanding of why our vision is to be the best
academic law library in the world, as well as a sense
of the vital role libraries play in contemporary law
schools.
S. Blair Kauffman
Law Librarian and Professor of Law

malamut

degaetano

service awards

jackson

olszowa

Judy Malamut
Technical Services
40 Years
Louisa DeGaetano
Technical Services
35 Years
Shana Jackson
Administrative Offices
25 Years

matheson

eiseman

Barbara Olszowa
Foreign &
International
25 Years
Scott Matheson
Associate Librarian
for Technical Services
10 Years

harrington

Jason Eiseman
Head of Technology
5 Years
Ryan Harrington
Head of Reference
5 Years

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administration: superior service to our faculty, st

Historians are nothing without librarians. I am delighted to

acknowledge the aid of Blair Kauffman, John Nann, Mike Widener,

and the staff of the Yale Law Library.

Nicholas R. Parrillo, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

in the Forward of Against the Profit Motive: The Salary
Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (2013)

Tip of the Week email, and new services

aimed at providing access to material during
shopping period. The LAC student members
also have an opportunity to ask questions
regarding collections and services, and they
often make suggestions that might have never
occurred to the library. The meetings have
proved significantly helpful in improving
communication and providing more relevant
and useful services to our students.
The law library staff collectively was awarded
the Yale Law Women Staff Excellence Award in
the spring. During the award celebration, one
student praised the library for not just listening
to student suggestions but also responding
quickly to students needs and desires. One
significant way we have been so available and
responsive is via our intimate exchange with
students during LAC meetings. Additionally,
our individual librarians and staff are extremely
attentive to students and often bring student
ideas and concerns to library administration for
discussion and resolution.

The Yale Law Library staff collectively received the Yale Law Women Staff Excellence Award.

The administrative team, consisting of Law Librarian Blair Kauffman, Associate Librarian for
Administration Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Senior
Administrative Assistant Liliane McClenning,
and Administrative Assistant Shana Jackson,
focused efforts this year on finding more effective ways to reach and serve our students and
faculty, improving internal processes, and planning strategically for the future.

serving students
This year we were excited to welcome our
inaugural class of Yale Law School PhD
students. We gave them a specialized
orientation and assigned each a personal
librarian (Ryan Harrington, Jordan Jefferson,
John Nann, Michael VanderHeijden) based on
research interests. We also assigned each of the
five PhD students an individual, closed, secure

carrel in the same area of the library so that

they could easily collaborate when needed yet
work independently and quietly the majority
of the time. Toward the end of their first year,
we met with the group and learned how we
might help them maximize their last two years
at Yale Law School while further improving the
experience of future first-year PhD students.
The Law Librarian, Blair Kauffman, convened
the Library Advisory Council (LAC) for the
second year. The LAC is made up of two
students from each JD and graduate-level
class, and meets twice each semester with
librarians to provide feedback to the library
on issues concerning the student body such
as first-year orientation, space, workshop
and course offerings, reference support, and
communication. Fruitful ideas coming out
of the group this year included the Library

The law library continues its long tradition of

the Movie Night @ YLS series. In its eighth
year, our movie night series provides an
opportunity for our graduate students to select
and screen movies from their home countries.
Movies this year included: Behind the Crisis:
Eritreas Struggle to Survive (U.S.); Le Petit
Soldat (French); Everybodys Famous! (Dutch);
A World Without Thieves (China); Earth
(India); and The Footnote (Israel). The law
library also co-hosted two films with different
Yale Law School organizations: Women, War,
and Peace, in association with the Gruber
Distinguished Lecture in Womens Rights, and
The Visual Law Project at Yale Law School,
featuring Zainab Salbi; and After Tiller, with
Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice.
The law librarys Space Planning Committee
addressed specific student and researcher
concerns such as the assignment of JD carrels,
the improvement of Visiting Researcher carrels,
and the lack of space available to students in
the library to store books. As a result, the law
library reviewed carrel assignment procedures
with the LAC and made improvements to the
process and to pertinent communications.
The law library is refurbishing the 50+ year
old Visiting Researcher carrels which involves
sanding and staining each carrel, inserting a
lighting fixture and power strip, and adding on

tudents, staff and colleagues

a top shelf for books. The law library has also
cleared stack space in certain strategic locations
to address student need for convenient storage
area given their space-limited shared carrels.

SERVING FACULTY
Blair Kauffman, continued his Book Talk series,
which has become a tradition in the annual
programming of the law library. Each event
is highly anticipated and heavily attended by
faculty, students, and the wider Yale and New
Haven communities. This year we held six
book talks with our current faculty and two
with recent Yale Law School graduates. We also
co-sponsored a special book talk with the YLS
Black Law Students Association (BLSA).
In addition to underwriting a subscription
to Expresso to facilitate faculty and student
scholarship submissions, the law library is
now underwriting a faculty subscription
to Scholastica, the primary competitor of
Expresso. The law library has also implemented
procedures to help facilitate the seamless and
speedy acquisition of materials our faculty
need for their research and scholarship but that
are not added to the librarys collections. We
have further expanded services we offer to our
faculty such as copyright clearance assistance
and scanning projects.

SERVING OUR STAFF

The law library embarked on and completed
a new four-year strategic plan. In addition to
focusing on our primary patrons (faculty and
students), the Strategic Planning Committee
(Chair, Ryan Harrington) paid special
attention to the needs of our staff. For example,
colleagues called for opportunities to continue
to improve their skills and education, time
for research and scholarship, and increased
flexibility for improved work/life balance. The
library has instituted a set of guidelines to help
facilitate time for our librarians to research
and write, and we continue to work with
each individual staff member to create a work
schedule that meets both the librarys and the
individuals needs. We join the university in
supporting our colleagues who are furthering
their education, and we provide generous
support for professional development. We are
continually looking for ways to make the law
library an even better place to work.
The law library continued its Spotlight Series

which allows colleagues to share their work

with each other. Because our staff is spread in
four primary locations throughout the library,
there is often limited opportunity to learn what
units do outside of ones own. This years series
featured presentations by Anne Myers, focusing on The Life of the Book (acquisitions);
members of our Reference team discussing
interesting faculty projects; Access Services
colleagues explaining the diverse services they
provide to our patrons; and our Catalogers
explaining the work they do and what the future holds for cataloging generally. We were
also delighted to learn about the architecture of
the many Yale University libraries with a special
lecture by local architect, Robert Grzywacz.
Our Spotlight Series ended with a wonderful
presentation by our inaugural Rare Book Fellow, Ryan Greenwood, who highlighted several
of the special projects he worked on this year.
The law library also invites speakers to share
their experiences with our staff. Carole
Hinchcliff, Director of the University of
Melbournes Law Library, compared academic
law libraries in the United States and Australia.
In a larger forum, directors Femi Cadmus,
Cornell University Law Library, Sheri Lewis,
University of Chicago Law Library, and
Michelle Wu, Georgetown Law Library, shared
their unique yet interwoven ideas about the
future directions for academic law libraries.

SERVING OUR PROFESSION

In the spring semester, the library hosted
an intern, Kim Castellano (JD/MLS), as she
completed her Masters degree in library
science. Ms. Castellano was selected by our
Fellowships and Internships Committee
(Chair, Julie Krishnaswami) as an excellent
candidate who would benefit from working
with our staff and learning about each
department within a law library. She spent time
in Technical Services (including Cataloging,
Acquisitions, and eResources), Collections
and Access
(including Rare
Books), Reference
and Instruction
(including Foreign

and International), and Administration.

She completed assignments for multiple
departments and, working closely with her
supervisor (Sarah Ryan), gave a capstone
presentation on her last day.
Law Library administration is dedicated
to providing the very best services,
collections, and facilities to our faculty,
students, and staff. We endeavor to create
a collegial and balanced work environment
where our staff can thrive professionally
as well as personally. Together, we strive
to be the best academic law library in the
world in every respect.

professional activities
Law Librarian and Professor of Law S. Blair
Kauffman was awarded a Certificate of
Merit from the International Federation
of Library Associations (ifla) for service
to its section on Law Libraries. At the aba
Section on International Law meeting
in London, England, he moderated a
panel on comparative legal education,
From Legal Education to Legal Solutions:
Preparing for Global Legal Practice. He also
served on the aba Site Accreditation Team
for reaccreditation of the University of
Pennsylvanias Law School.
Associate Librarian for Administration
Teresa Miguel-Stearns is completing a
year as Vice Chair and will soon assume
Chair of American Association of Law
Librarys (aall) Foreign, Comparative, and
International Law Special Interest Section
(fcil-sis). Within the fcil-sis, she chaired the
Education Committee, is a member of the
Website Committee, and is active in the Latin
American Interest Group. She is also an active
member of the International Association
of Law Libraries (iall) and the Seminar on
the Acquisition of Latin American Library
Materials (salalm). Ms. Miguel-Stearns chairs
the law librarys Space Planning Committee
and continues to collect and manage the law
librarys resources from Latin America and
Iberia.

Law Library intern

Kim Castellano

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book talk series

sponsored by the lillian goldman law library

Book Discussion With

Book Discussion With

Richard R.W. Brooks

Ted Marmor

Lecturer in the Practice of Law amd Legal Writing

Professor of Law

Professor Emeritus of Public

Policy and Management
Professor Emeritus of
Political Science

and

Carol M. Rose
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and
Professorial Lecturer in Law

The

s p o n s o r e d by th e lillian g o ldm an l aw lib rary

Book Discussion With

Book Launch and Conversation

Noah Messing

Nicholas R. Parrillo

Charles Keller Beekman Profesor of Law, Columbia Law School

and Professor (Adjunct) of Law, Yale Law School

sponsored by the lillian goldman law library

yale health law and policy society
yale institution for social and policy studies

sponsored by the l il l ian gol dman l aw l ibrary

sponsor ed by t he lillian g oldm an l aw librar y

Book Discussion With

W. Michael Reisman

Jerry L. Mashaw John Pakutka

Sterling Professor of Law

Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law

Managing Director,
The Crescent Group

of

Briefs, Motions, and Writing Strategies of Americas Best Lawyers

NoAh A. MeSSiNg

Against the Profit Motive The Salary

Revolution in American Government,

1780 1940 Nicholas R. Parrillo

With Commentary by

Eugene R. Fidell
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room 122

With Commentary By

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Jerry L. Mashaw

6:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room 128

Sterling Professor of Law

Brooks, Richard R. W. and Carol M. Rose.

Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive
Covenants, Law, and Social Norms. October 22,
2013, Sterling Law Building.
Parrillo, Nicholas R. Against the Profit Motive:
The Salary Revolution in American Government,
1780-1940. October 29, 2013, Sterling Law
Building.
Messing, Noah A. The Art of Advocacy: Briefs,
Motions, and Writing Strategies of Americas
Best Lawyers. November 5, 2013, Sterling Law
Building.

Senior Research Scholar in Law and

Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law

Linda Greenhouse

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

6:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room 128

With Commentary by

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Stephen Latham

6:007:30 pm
Yale Law School
Alumni Reading Room

Director, Interdisciplinary
Center for Bioethics

Senior Research Scholar in Law

Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence
and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law

Marmor, Theodore R., Jerry L. Mashaw,

and John Pakutka. Social Insurance: Americas
Neglected Heritage and Contested Future.
November 14, 2013, Sterling Law Building. Cosponsored by the Yale Health Law and Policy
Society, and the Yale Institution for Social and
Policy Studies.
Reisman, W. Michael. The Quest for World
Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-first
Century: Constitutive Process and Individual
Commitment. November 20, 2013, Sterling Law
Building.

Monday, November 18, 2013

6:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room 129

Wine and Cheese Reception

Gray, Fred D. Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the

System by the System, February 20, 2014, Sterling
Law Building. Co-sponsored by the Yale Black
Law Students Association.
DeNardis, Laura. The Global War for Internet
Governance. February 27, 2014, Sterling Law
Building. Co-sponsored by the Yale Law School
Information Society Project.
Weiner, Mark S. The Rule of the Clan: What
an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals
about the Future of Individual Freedom. March 11,
2014, Sterling Law Building.

Zaremby, Justin S. Legal Realism and American

Law. February 4, 2014, Sterling Law Building.

sponsored by the lillian goldman law library

Book Discussion With

Mark S. Weiner 00
Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar
Rutgers School of Law, Newark, New Jersey

sponsored by the lillian goldman law library

and yale black law students association (blsa)

Book Discussion With

Attorney Fred David Gray

Civil Rights Lawyer
In December 1955 Fred Gray represented Mrs. Rosa Parks who was arrested because she refused to give up her
seat on a bus to a white man, igniting the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and City of Montgomery v. Rosa Parks.

sponsored by the lillian goldman law library

and the information society project

Book Discussion With

Laura DeNardis
Professor, School of Communication
American University

sponsored by the lillian goldman law library

Book Discussion With

Justin Zaremby 10

He was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s first civil rights attorney.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

6:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room 128

commentary with

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Professor Drew Days, III

4:10 pm
Yale Law School, Room 127

Alfred M. Rankin Professor Emeritus of

Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law

Reception to follow in the Alumni

Reading Room

Thursday, February 13, 2014

12:00 noon
Yale Law School
Room 122
Lunch will be served

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

6:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room 128

library publications:
preeminence online and in print

The Yale Law School Oral History Series.

In past annual reports, our library publication

program has been described as preeminent
among law libraries both in online and print
formats. Our level of activity and quality in the
publishing sphere continued in 2013-2014.
One of our digital publications is the Yale Law
School Legal Scholarship Repository, an openaccess repository of Yale Law Schools faculty,
student, and other publications intended to
present the intellectual output of the school
and preserve its institutional history. We were
the pioneers at Yale University in developing an
institutional repository and, with over 6,000
papers included and nearly 3.5 million full-text
downloads around the world, we remain by
far the largest repository at Yale and one of
the largest and most-downloaded law school
repositories in the country.
This past year, Head of Access Services Julian
Aiken, Associate Librarian for Collections
and Access Fred Shapiro, and Collections and
Access Coordinator Cesar Zapata continued
to strive to make our repository more visible
and to further expand content with Yale law
journals and special collection materials. The
Yale Human Rights and Development Journal
became the fourth of the student journals to
be loaded, and Mr. Aiken and Mr. Shapiro
met with other journals encouraging them to
join in. Other new series were added to the
repository, including Yale Law School oral

histories. On an ongoing basis, we are updating

the faculty articles coverage, which is the
most extensive of any law school institutional
repository, and we are developing workflows
for soliciting permissions from non-studentedited journals. Some Access Services staff are
spending time helping to load special collection
materials.
For many years we have taken the lead role
in collaborating with the Gale publishing
company to create the Making of Modern Law
(MOML) project, arguably the most important
digital legal history initiative in the world.
The latest MOML module is Making of Modern
Law: Foreign Primary Sources, Part II, including
almost 1.5 million pages of historical codes,
statutes, regulations, and commentaries on
codes from Latin America, Spain, Italy, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, canon
law, and Roman law. The Lillian Goldman
Law Library, Yale Law School contributed the
largest portion of the books digitized, with
other books being contributed by the law
libraries of Harvard and George Washington
University. Mr. Shapiro conceived and planned
the entire module, with Mr. Zapata and other
staff from our Access Services, Rare Books, and
Technical Services departments also playing
key roles in the project.

Our primary printed book series is the Yale

Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference,
published for us by Yale University Press.
In 2013, the seventh book in the series was
published, Against the Profit Motive: The Salary
Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940,
by Yale Law School professor Nicholas Parrillo.
This book received the 2014 James Willard
Hurst Book Prize for the best book of the year
in socio-legal history, from the Law and Society
Association. A previous book in our series,
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and
Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms,
by YLS faculty members Judith Resnik and
Dennis E. Curtis, won the 2014 Order of the
Coif Book Award, given biennially to a book
of the highest order of legal scholarship
and perhaps the most prestigious book award
in the field of law. Another previous series
book, Creating the Administrative Constitution:
The Lost One Hundred Years of American
Administrative Law, by YLS professor Jerry L.
Mashaw, garnered the 2013 Administrative Law
Section Annual Award from the American Bar
Association.
The Law Library also publishes the Yale Law
School Oral History Series in print and online.
Interviews by former Associate Librarian
for Administration Bonnie Collier with
retired professors from our law school are
included. Three new booklets appeared this
year: A Conversation with Ralph S. Brown, A
Conversation with Elias Clark, and
A Conversation with Myres S. McDougal.
Finally, the William S. Hein Company will
shortly be publishing the long-awaited A Bibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone by former Associate Librarian Ann Jordan Laeuchli.
This volume, two decades in the making, will
unquestionably be one of the most significant
and outstanding works of legal bibliography
ever produced. It is not only compiled by a
former librarian at Yale Law Library, it is also
largely based on our library collection.

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collection development: creativity supporting exc

I am finally getting deeply into the digital NAACP papers. They are truly

Financial Times

awesome. There are thousands of boxes and hundreds of microfilm reels.

HeinOnline Parker School of Foreign and

Comparative Law Publications

werent digital and searchable. VERY grateful!

HeinOnline State Reports: A Historical

Archive

HeinOnline Women and the Law

I could never work through all this material in a reasonable time if it

Note from John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law
School, to Blair Kauffman and Fred Shapiro

International Encyclopaedia of Laws

JSTOR Arts and Sciences XII (has large
Law component)

Law and Society Since the Civil War:

American Legal Manuscripts from the
Harvard Law School Library
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary
Sources, 1600-1970
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on
International Law
Papers of the NAACP
ProQuest Executive Branch Documents
(1789-1932)

RIA Checkpoint
We acquired the Digital Collection of Papers of the NAACP.

The primary collection development staff

of Lillian Goldman Law Library consists of
Associate Librarian for Collections and Access,
Fred Shapiro, and Curator for Foreign and
International Law, Daniel Wade. However,
many other librarians play crucial rules
in collection development as selectors for
particular jurisdictions or subjects: Ryan
Harrington, Julie Graves Krishnaswami,
Evelyn Ma, Teresa Miguel-Stearns, John Nann,
Michael VanderHeijden, and Mike Widener.
From the Technical Services Department,
Caitlyn Lam, Scott Matheson, and Anne Myers
provide essential support and guidance.
The 2013-2014 year, perhaps more than any
other, required us to draw upon our resources
and our creativity to serve the ambitious
research needs of Yale Law School faculty
and students in the face of rapid changes in

publishing, information formats, and patrons

use of research materials. Our robust resources
and collective ingenuity have allowed us to rise
to the challenge of finding creative solutions to
the varied and often challenging research needs
of our patrons.
We aspire to have the most extensive offerings
of digital resources for law-related research
available anywhere (complemented by the
vast digital resources made available to our
patrons by the Yale University Library). During
this past year, we added the following new
databases, among others:
American Bench Online
Constitutions of the World from the Late
18th Century to the Middle of the 19th
Century Online
Corporate Affiliations

The Papers of the NAACP well illustrate our

efforts and successes in serving Yale Law School
and the University. Professor John Witt felt this
digital product from the ProQuest company
would be invaluable to his own scholarship
and that of his students, and it was clear that
it would also be of great utility to students of
history, political science, and African-American
studies throughout Yale. However, the cost
was very high, beyond the normal ability of
either the Law Library or University Library to
purchase. We found a solution by enlisting the
generous support of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen
Fund, which, together with a large contribution
from the University Library and a substantial
discount negotiated with ProQuest, enabled the
NAACP acquisition to become a reality.
The NAACP purchase became part of a
multiyear package agreement with ProQuest,
which will also include important new
databases of legislative and government
information. In developing the package
agreement, the Law Library took a proactive
role, in negotiating with the vendor and
contributing to purchase cost, than it has in
the past for other joint Lillian Goldman Law
Library / Yale University Library acquisitions.
There is more need than ever for us to

cellence
professional activities
Associate Librarian for Collections and Access
Fred Shapiro continued his roles as the
Contributing Editor to Blacks Law Dictionary
for historical information, consultant to the
Making of Modern Law digital legal history
products, consultant to the Oxford English
Dictionary on legal terms, and series editor
for Yale University Press on the Yale Law
Library Series in Legal History and Reference.
Curator for Foreign and International Law
Daniel Wade continues to chair the Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law Special
Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) Foreign Selectors
Interest Group, American Association of Law
Libraries, and remains heavily involved in the
Northeast Foreign Law Librarians Cooperative
Group (NEFLLCG).

Members of the Collections and Access Services department receive the Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law, which arrived at its new
home in the Lillian Goldman Law Library in September 2013. Please see the Rare Books section (p.24) for more details.

consider contributions to University Library

subscriptions, but we limit such contributions
to resources that are directly relevant to Law
School patrons.
The Law Library pioneered this year in
responding to the needs of Yale Law School
faculty and students for institutional licenses
enabling smartphone and tablet access to
popular resources. In particular, we negotiated
a very affordable institutional license for YLS
affiliates to access the digital version of The
New York Times. This was the first (still the
only) such license at Yale and one of the first
by any academic institution in the country; it
has been received enthusiastically by faculty
and students. The NELLCO library consortium,
with our encouragement, later inaugurated a
consortial rate for the digital New York Times
that saved us even more money. We also
confirmed digital access to The Washington Post
and helped the University Library to work out a
digital deal for the Financial Times.

restrictions placed by publishers on ebooks,

and long-term preservation needs. Our Ebooks
Task Force has moved forward with purchasing
ebook access from publishers such as Oxford
University Press and Cambridge University
Press, that meet our criteria for suitable ebook
platforms. We have rejected ebook packages
from other publishers, such as the major legal
publishers, whose platforms are typically
expensive and not suitable for libraries in
various respects.
Aided greatly by the expertise of our new
Librarian for Digital Resources Ms. Lam, we
have moved in the direction of formulating
more consistent policies regarding licensing
and other issues posed by e-resources.
A number of licensing agreements were
negotiated with significant vendors in order to
procure subscriptions desired by our patrons.
We found that even the largest information
providers may be willing to change licensing
terms if we negotiate fairly and strategically.

We continued to wrestle with finding a place

for downloadable ebooks in our collecting. In
considering this question we need to weigh
such factors as patron expectations, the

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access services: the yale law library, on demand

Many thanks! You are super responsive, often thinking of student
needs before we even anticipate them.

Student email in response

to the On Demand suite of services

breaks, semesters spent studying or working

at other academic institutions, etc. We were
concerned that our remote patrons would be
forced to limit themselves to online library
resources, or attempt to access print materials
at other libraries, in which both collection
limitations and privileges issues could prove
serious barriers to access.

Alison Burke, Craig Kirkland, and Cha Chi Hung at the Circulation Desk.

In 2014, the Access Services team completed

a three-year project: a suite of On Demand
services, developed with the intention of
improving the user experience and bettering
the efficiency of our Collections and Access
department processes.
While some of these services have built upon
work being done in other academic libraries,
others are entirely original in concept and
practice; this originality, together with the
holistic On Demand approach taken to users
of the Law Library, places the library right at
the cutting edge of innovation among library
service providers.
The librarys collection of On Demand services
now includes:
Scan on Demand, providing the rapid
electronic reproduction of portions of books
and journals;
Deliver on Demand, our latest service,
promising the rapid delivery of books and
journals to our users home addresses;
Collect on Demand, ensuring our collection

development meets the specific and immediate

requirements of our users.

SCAN ON DEMAND
Scan on Demand has proven to be an
immensely popular service. Greeted with
delight by our students, the usage numbers
have grown incredibly. A brief overview of the
usage statistics shows that, in its launch year,
270 scans were fulfilled (from a student body
of roughly 650). In the next year, 2012-2013,
the library saw a 395% increase in usage of
the service, with 1336 scans filled. 2013-2014
saw another increase of 54% in usage over the
previous year, with 2060 scans being filled.

DELIVER ON DEMAND
Deliver on Demand is a remarkable service that
we developed to get books to our readers who
spend time away from the Yale campus and its
libraries during the course of their law studies.
Most of our faculty and students spend some
time geographically absent from the Yale-New
Haven area, for summer internships, study

The Access Services unit has, therefore,

developed a book delivery service, mailing
library books to students throughout the US
and Canada. Library users can simply click a
Mail it to Me button in our catalog to have
the selected book packaged and mailed to their
place of residence.
We believe this is an entirely new type of academic library service. An environmental scan of
academic libraries could find no other academic
libraries offering a home delivery service (other
than those engaged in distance learning programs, for which it was clearly a necessity). Although this service places us right at the cutting
edge of library innovation, we have launched
and run it without additional staffing or equipment expenditure. Instead, our existingand
quite wonderfulInterlibrary Loan staff of Alison Burke, Cha Chi Hung, and Craig Kirkland
has embraced this work as part of their daily
Scan on Demand:
Greeted with Delight by our Students
Was there a place in that library services survey to
say how I absolute LOVE LOVE LOVE you all?!? And will
MISS you when I leave this summer!
Thanks so much for this INCREDIBLE service! Wow!

routine. As the positive responses from our

users illustrate, Ms. Burke, Ms. Hung, and Mr.
Kirkland have done a great job of making this
new program immensely successful.

COLLECT ON DEMAND
Collect on Demand represents an exciting
new approach to purchasing books and other
materials for our collection. In addition to
traditional method of collecting, and to our
established policy of rapid responsiveness to
patron requests, we are now taking an even
more proactive approach to collection development. Collect on Demand does not require
users to actually make an acquisitions request,
but rather Access Services analyzes requests
made for loans from other libraries and makes
purchasing decisions based upon this activity.
Thus, whenever a Law Library patron makes
a request to Access Services for an interlibrary
loan, the Associate Librarian for Collections
and Access or another relevant book selector is
alerted and decides whether to buy the item.
Thus, the On Demand suite of services offered
by the library to its patrons represents an effort
to anticipate and meet the evolving demands
of users who have become accustomed in their
daily lives to high levels of service from dynamic providers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
The success of the program has been confirmed
by strong usage figures and positive patron
feedback. Another indicator of success for the
On Demand services is the speed with which
aspects have been adopted by the broader Yale
University Library system. Scan on Demand
has now been introduced across Yale libraries, and recent discussions of interlibrary loan
services for remote campuses have included the
principles of Collect on Demand.

TEAMWORK
The success of the new suite of On Demand
services has been achieved due to the
wonderful work of our Access Services staff. In
2013, we reorganized the Access Services unit to
more efficiently handle our On Demand work,
creating two distinct teams. The On Demand
team was designed to focus particularly on the
On Demand suite of services. In recognition
of her superb work in Interlibrary Loans, Ms.
Burke was named Team Leader of the On
Demand unit. Its members still perform other
Access Services duties as necessary, but the new
reporting structure and streamlining of work

practices has resulted in greater efficiencies.

The second team, coordinated by Collections
and Access Coordinator, Cesar Zapata, has been
tasked with a greater focus on traditional Access
Services roles including circulation and stacks
management. Antonio Malabag and Benjamin
Bernard have done a splendid job in maintaining, and even improving, our traditionally extremely high service levels in this area.

Total Checkout
Figures

FY13

FY14

Monograph after
1875

57.1%

22,115

58.7%

24,078

Bound Periodical
after 1875

2.1%

815

2.1%

842

Unbound
Periodical

12.5%

4,856

11.5%

4,719

Looseleaf

0.2%

65

0.1%

35

The fantastic work by all the Access Services

staff is reflected in the astonishing increase
in business over the last few years. While
academic libraries across the United States have
seen a decline in circulation figures averaging
10% over the last four years, the law librarys
circulation of materials has increased by 23%
over that same period. At the same time as
our circulation numbers have been rising, our
interlibrary loan work has also been growing.
Over the last four years, our total measurable
activity of circulation, interlibrary loans, and
scanning has increased by 30%.

Mono. & BD
periodical pre-1875

0.1%

27

0.2%

64

Reporter

0.2%

70

0.0%

20

Statute

0.3%

134

0.0%

14

Microform

0.1%

29

0.0%

12

VHS

0.3%

132

0.2%

80

Express Book

0.9%

363

0.9%

387

Software,
Umbrellas,
Blankets, etc.

10.7%

4,142

13.7%

5,605

These increases in library usage by our

patrons have been due, in large part, to our
cutting-edge innovation, and strong focus on
exemplary customer service. Access Services
has been delighted to make such positive
contributions to the librarys efforts to be the
best academic law library in the world.

dvd/cd-rom/
blu-ray

10.1%

3,916

7.0%

2,854

ILL Book

4.4%

1,722

4.7%

1,910

LSF Rare

0.3%

98

0.4%

159

Mobile Devices,
Board Games

0.6%

241

0.7%

269

100.0%

38,725

100.0%

41,048

Total

professional activities
Julian Aiken, Head of Access Services, is a
member of the Yale University Document
Delivery group and Standing Committee on
Professional Awareness. He was an invited
speaker, presenting on the librarys On Demand
services and on our Therapy Dog program, at
the Texas Library Association Conference in
2014. He also gave presentations at Computers
in Libraries 2014, on the subject of our Deliver
on Demand service, and to the Yale community
on the library as 3rd space.
Cesar Zapata is a founder member of the
Latino Caucus of the American Association
of Law Libraries, which is celebrating its 10th
anniversary this year in the same city where it
was founded, San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Zapata is
also an active member of the law librarys Space
Planning Committee, Programs Committee, and
Rare Book Digitization Committee.

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technical services:
acquiring, describing, and discovering
Acquisitions

FY
2012

FY
2013

FY
2014

Monograph titles
added

7,652

7,943

7,112

DVD titles added

235

233

165

Print titles/copies
cancelled

55

77

32

Serial pieces received

(including fiche)

31,516

29,353

43,727

Binding (volumes)

2,410

1,619

1,416

Librarian for Digital Resources Caitlyn Lam

worked with vendors and colleagues on
campus to make extensive collections of ebooks
available to Law Library patrons. She managed
the licensing of major collections from Oxford
and Cambridge university presses. She also
ensured that relevant collections licensed by
other Yale libraries are represented in MORRIS,
the law librarys catalog.

Judy Malamut retired after 40

years of service to Yale University,
with almost 30 of those years to the
Law Library. (You can still spot
her running around campus.)

The Technical Services department continued

to support collection development activities,
ensured that the librarys materials were up
to date, and made all materialsregardless of
formatdiscoverable by researchers. Change
continued to be a constant as online resources
took more attention and a staff retirement led
to a reorganization of the acquisitions unit.
Judy Malamut, Acquisitions Assistant, retired
from the Law Library after 40 years of service
to Yale libraries and 28 years in the Law
Librarys acquisitions unit. While her expertise
is irreplaceable, the remaining staff pulled
together to maintain the traditionally high level
of service.
Head of Acquisitions Anne Myers led a reorganization of that unit to improve service and
efficiency. Acquisitions Assistants Maria Puzzo,
Louisa DeGaetano, and Pat Caple are cross-

trained in broad areas of acquisitions work

and will welcome a new team leader, Diana
Quinones, in mid-August 2014. In addition,
Ms. Caple learned a new computer system to
manage the librarys binding operations and
transitioned the work to a new vendor.
Financial Assistant Pamela Clifford oversaw
payment of more than 12,000 items to hundreds of vendors. Serials Assistant Rosemary
Williams checked in more than 25,000 serials,
looseleaf updates, and volume updates.

Both Ms. Lam and Associate Librarian for

Technical Services Scott Matheson attended
advanced training in administering the librarys
updated management system, Sierra. New
functions in Sierra allow technical uses of data
about the collections that save staff time and
improves services. For example, the system
now automatically provides information about
databases to the librarys website. Librarians
can include this information in their web pages
and know that it will be kept current automatically by the link between the two systems.
A new search tool called Articles+ launched in
the fall. This tool, developed jointly with Yale
University Library, provides a search across
nearly all of the online articles available at the
university. Articles+ is the first step in a plan to
build a simple but robust search tool that will
search across Yale library catalogs, the universitys digital collections, and licensed digital
content such as journal articles and ebooks.

As part of the librarys Spotlight Series, Ms.

Myers presented the entire acquisitions workflow to the library staff. The well-received session explained the complex but often invisible
work that the acquisitions team does and how
they can best help speed up service when new
materials are needed for library patrons.
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cataloging:
enhancing access to all resources
in clearing space on the Upper East Side and improving access to those resources. He also completed planning for the cataloging of the Social
Science Pamphlet Collection, a complex task that
will involve linking one item record to multiple
titles that are physically bound together on the
shelf. Ultimately, this project will help improve
access in our catalog to this historical collection.
Catalog Assistant Jonathan Lasky assisted
with the long-term project of processing of the
Kuttner Collection. Widely considered one of
the worlds best collections of canon law, the
Kuttner collection arrived from Germany in the
fall of 2013 and is approximately three-quarters
processed. Mr. Laskys extensive knowledge of
canon law and church history aided in making
the integration of this collection into our library
a smooth transition. He notes that we now
have many new primary sources that are only
available at the Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Patrick Lavey and Cate Kellett inspect

a complicated German series.

The Cataloging unit improves access to the

many different resources acquired by the
Lillian Goldman Law Library by following
national metadata standards and participating
in professional organizations. A number of
achievements are worth noting this year.
The Cataloging unit finished the year on a
high note by eliminating the librarys massive
backlog. In 2006, the backlog was 2,633 titles;
today it is less than a dozen. More books are
on the way, of course, yet this is cause for
celebration. The library receives a significant
number of monographs, serials, DVDs, and
other resources that are processed by the
cataloging team within a day or two and sent to
the stacks for prompt access by our patrons.
The Cataloging unit now completes all original
cataloging using the new cataloging standard,
Resource Description and Access (RDA). While
still a challenge, the catalogers are finding it

easier to navigate and understand, and remain

convinced it will contribute to the task of
making our many resources easier to discover,
especially as electronic resources proliferate.
The catalogers participate in webinars and
attend conferences to keep up with updates and
rule interpretations to RDA.
Lead Cataloger Patrick Lavey completed two
special projects of note. He cleaned up and unified a set of prison directories, which resulted

Catalog Librarian Cate Kellett spent the past

year organizing, processing, and weeding
the government documents collection. She
made significant progress with the backlog
of unprocessed government documents. To
improve access to this collection, Ms. Kellett
upgraded the catalog records and added item
records for those that lacked such records.
She also worked with Evelyn Ma, Reference
Librarian for Foreign and International Law,
to clean up a collection of Japanese legislation
which had been housed in a temporary location.
Those materials are now integrated in the
Japanese section of the Lower East Side.
Mr. Lavey and Ms. Kellett spent six months
training to become certified contributors of
name authority records to the Name Authority
Cooperative Program (NACO). Their contributions will assist catalogers across the country in
using the same form of names for authors and
other entities associated with works. Ultimately
this allows for quicker and more accurate collocation of materials in library catalogs.
Next year the department looks forward to exciting new projects, including providing metadata
for the Litchfield Law School Notebooks after
they are digitized. They will then be added to the
Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository.
Ms. Kellett worked with Caitlyn Lam, Librarian
for Digital Resources, to formulate metadata
guidelines for this project, and will adapt these
guidelines to future digital projects.

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foreign and international law collection: a globa

We wanted to thank you for the very informative international law

research session today. It will be immensely helpful for the 1Ls in writing
their memos for their international human rights projects.

Note from YLS student to Evelyn Ma

in the Foreign and International Law Collection meet twice a year with their counterparts
from Columbia University, Cornell University,
Fordham University, Georgetown University,
Harvard University, and University of Pennsylvania. These meetings facilitate exchange and
collaboration among members of the group to
ensure a more comprehensive global law collection that can meet the ever-changing research
needs of our constituents in major academic
law libraries in the United States.
The Foreign and International Law Collection
continues to re-evaluate and re-calibrate
its print and digital contents. Highlights of
new acquisitions include a multi-volume
set of compiled codes from Cote dIvoir; a
collaborative purchase with the Yale University
Library; and several books of historical
significance from Latin America including
Principios de Derechos de Jente, by Andres Bello,
one of the most important and influential
jurists of 19th c. Latin America.

HIGHLIGHTING RESOURCES

Ryan Harrington and Evelyn Ma provide a library orientation to the LLM students.

The Foreign and International Law Collection

at the Lillian Goldman Law Library boasts one
of the nations major academic international
law collections and an extensive selection of
sources in comparative law in English, French,
German, Italian, and Spanish.

THE COLLECTION
Daniel Wade, Curator of Foreign and International Law, oversees the exceptional and heavily used human rights collection in addition
to acquisitions from a wide variety of foreign
jurisdictions. Other librarians assist with the
selection process based on their interest and
expertise: Evelyn Ma collects for Korea, Japan,
Singapore, and China; Ryan Harrington selects
for Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and
India; John Nanns portfolio includes Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom,

and the European Union; Teresa Miguel-Stearns collects for Latin America and Iberia; and
Julie Graves Krishnaswami selects materials on
global legal womens issues. The collective effort of focused foreign acquistions renders our
diverse collection one of the finest for conducting comparative law research. Basia Olszowa,
assisted by librarians, constantly monitors and
weeds the collection to ensure its relevance. In
the past year, under the guidance of Mr. Wade,
Ms. Olszowa conducted a project to update
the Foreign and International Law Reference
Collection so that current reference tools are
displayed in the Foreign and International Law
Reading Room for easy browsing and use by
students and faculty.
The Lillian Goldman Law Library collaborates
with the Northeast Foreign Law Librarians
Cooperative Group (NEFLLCG). Librarians

As in past years, librarians continue to publicize

and highlight resources at the library through
the use of blogs, display case exhibits, research
guides, classes, and workshops at the Law
School. Mr. Harringtons Collected Travaux
Preparatoires research guide and the popular
Country-by-Country guide have been consistently ranked among the top 10 most popular
pages based on unique visits to the law library
website.
Noteworthy blog posts published in the past
year include a two-part mini-primer on UN
documents by Mr. Harrington and Ms. Ma; a
guide on locating medieval English statutes by
Mr. Nann; and compendium posts on library
resources on international child abduction by
our inaugural Library Intern, Kim Castellano.
In addition, three exhibits highlighting topical
library resources were prepared in the past year.
Frozen Conflicts explored historical territorial
disputes among countries in the former Soviet
Republic. Global Constitutionalism, displaying
seminal treatises on comparative constitutionalism and seminar reading assignments, was
prepared in conjunction with the Global Constitutionalism Seminar held contemporaneously at the Law School in the fall. Shirin Ebadi
showcased the publications of the 2003 Nobel
Laureate and Iranian human rights activist,

al research meetinghouse
who delivered
the Distinguished Gruber
Lecture in
Global Justice
in late spring.
Other research
guides are
tailored for
specific classes
or clinical
needs at the
law school,
including:
guides for
Professor
Michael Reismans International Arbitration
and International Investment Law classes;
Professor Jim Silks Lowenstein Human
Rights Clinic; and Professor Jean Koh Peters
Immigration Legal Services Clinic. Librarians
also regularly give focused research seminars
for law school courses, for students who
are preparing for international Moot Court
Competitions, and for students enrolled in
clinical programs who require individualized
research consultations and training in foreign,
comparative, and international law.

SHARING INFORMATION
Spearheaded by Mr. Harrington, the Research
Methods in Foreign and International Law
class was offered in the spring. Using the
flipped classroom concept, Mr. Harrington
blended formal lectures with informal studentinitiated presentations. Additionally, a group
of reference librarians from the United Nations
Dag Hammarskjld Library were invited to
give a presentation on navigating the various
UN document retrieval systems. They shared
their insiders insights on the strategies for
locating UN documents and conducting
research in the UN research portals.
Librarians from the Foreign and International
Law Collection work closely with members
of the Law School Graduate Programs
department to incorporate library resources
and research training into the studies of the
graduate community. In addition to the library
orientation sessions provided to the new
graduate students in the fall, Mr. Harrington
co-presented on Academic Integrity with
Sarah Ryan, Empirical Research Librarian,

and Gordon Silverstein, Associate Dean for

Graduate Programs. With the assistance of
Catalog/Government Documents Librarian,
Cate Kellett, Ms. Ma coordinated Movie Nights
@ YLS, where students screen films of social
and legal interest from their home countries
and engage in stimulating discussion of issues
raised by the movies. Since its inception
in 2006, the event continues to provide a
lighter platform for international dialogue in
the graduate community, which consists of
students as well as visiting researchers from all
over the world.
Librarians also participate in and contribute to
the global exchange of legal information. Mr.
Harrington and Ms. Miguel-Stearns attended
the International Association of Law Libraries
annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain, and Mr.
Harrington also attended the annual meeting
of American Society of International Law in
Washington, D.C. in the spring.
Additionally, Mr. Harrington gave a Guest
of Honor address at a conference on digital
libraries in Gandhinagar, India. At the
request and expense of Gujarat National Law
University, he traveled to Gandhinagar to
report on institutional repositories of legal
scholarship in the United States, and the
predominance of the Bepress platform among
law schools and libraries. Because virtual
space for scholarly literature and open access
initiatives are new to Indian libraries, Mr.
Harringtons talk, Digital Decisions: A Yale Law
Library Case-Study, discussing the successful
transition at Yale from print to digital access
to scholarship, was thought-provoking and
well received. His talk also highlighted the
Document Collection Center within eYLS as a
vehicle for promoting the law librarys unique
collections, including digitized images from
the rare book collection and the vast array of
foreign and international resources that were
used to support Professor Oona Hathaways
Amicus Briefs during the Kiobel proceedings
at the United States Supreme Court. The
conference, held on the campus of Gujarat
National Law University, provided an excellent
opportunity for Mr. Harrington, who selects
for India, to meet and reconnect with book and
database vendors, as well as librarians from
other parts of India.

Top: The Frozen Conflicts exhibit explored historical

territorial disputes among countries in the former Soviet
Republic.
Bottom: Mr. Harrington gives a Guest of Honor address at a
conference on digital libraries in Gandhinagar, India.

professional activities
Ryan Harrington is the Head of Reference/
Specialist in Foreign and International Law.
He is currently serving in his fourth year
as a Contributing Editor for U.S. Law to the
American Society of International Law (asil)
International Legal Materials. In the past year
he chaired the Selection Committee for the
Foreign, Comparative and International Law
Special Interest Section (fcil-sis) fcil Schaffer
Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. He finished
his second year on the American Association
of Law Libraries (aall) committees of both
Law Library Journal and aall Spectrum, and
will begin working on the aall Research
and Publications Committee this year. Mr.
Harrington chaired the Law Librarys Strategic
Planning Committee.
Reference Librarian in Foreign and
International Law, Evelyn Ma, continues to
chair the Asian Law Interest Group of the fcilsis at aall. She recently presented a database
she created on Asian law journals contained
in the Index of Foreign Legal Periodicals. She
is also a member of Chinese-American Forum
of Legal Information (cafll). At its most recent
meeting in Shanghai, Ms. Ma moderated a
panel and served as an interpreter during the
post-panel discussion. Ms. Ma is a member of
the Law Librarys Programs Committee and
Space Planning Committee.
Curator of Foreign and International Law
Collection, Daniel Wade, continues to chair
the fcil-sis Foreign Selectors Interest Group
at AALL and remains heavily involved in
Northeast Foreign Law Librarians Cooperative
Group (nefllcg).

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instructional services: research instruction supp

and twenty-first century law practice
I am two weeks into a summer
internship, and I have been

grateful every single day that I

took ALR last semester!

This class has taught me so

much and been one of the best

classes for me this semester.
I feel like I have learned

something tangible that will be

useful to me for the rest of my
legal career.

Anonymous students of
Advanced Legal Research

My ALR training is already paying off in spades.

Im so happy I took it.
Just wanted to share that on my second day of
my internship, I was assigned a legislative history
question that required extensive print research.
I went to the state legislative library and spent
the day looking at legislative debate transcripts,
different bill drafts, and piecing together the story of
a bill from the early 1970s. I marvel at how much
of what I learned in ALR was directly transferrable
to my internship.
One of the things Ive learned is to seek help from
the librarians when I need it.

Julie Graves Krishnaswami teaching Advanced Legal Research

Headed by Julie Graves Krishnaswami, the

Instructional Services unit coordinates the
Lillian Goldman Law Librarys formal and
informal research methods and bibliographic
instruction efforts. The demand for research
instruction and bibliographic support is
ongoing and substantial. Research at Yale
Law School is taught in many forms to ensure
that studentswith varied scholarly interests,
course schedules, and career goalsare able
to obtain the instruction they need. Many
librarians provide for-credit classes, electronic
tutorials, online research guides, guest research
lectures in substantive law classes, research
lectures to journals and clinics, research
workshops, and training to the first-year law
students in the Small Group Legal Research
Program. In both the formal and informal
instructional arenas, this was a year of
innovation and experimentation.

Im starting my fifth week in the internship and

just wanted to sayso glad I took your class this
past spring. My entire job this summer consists of
legal research (and writing memos summarizing
the research). A lot of it has to do with statutory
privacy/communications law too. So Ive been
using ARLs and secondary sources, the Key
Numbers, and the Citing References tab all the
time.

RESEARCH COURSES
The Law Library continues to offer several
for-credit research classes. Advanced Legal
Research (ALR) is the librarys signature
research class, which is consistently fully
subscribed. Ms. Krishnaswami is the lead
instructor for this class which is teamtaught and features class presentations by
Jason Eiseman, Head of Technology; John
Nann, Associate Librarian for Reference and
Instructional Services; Michael VanderHeijden,
Head of Faculty Services; and Rob Harrison,
Lecturer in Legal Methods. This years ALR was
thoroughly updated and revamped and taught
in a flipped-classroom model with a focus on
in-class research exercises with the standard
lectures and slide shows online for the students
to watch before class. Students responded
positively to the changes:

Our basic one-credit course in legal research

formerly called Efficient Techniques in Legal
Research was renamed Research Methods in
American Law. Jordan Jefferson assumed the
role of lead instructor and was assisted by Mr.
Nann, Mr. Eiseman, and Ms. Krishnaswami.
Ms. Jefferson implemented several changes
such as the use of many more in-class exercises.
These changes were clearly successful.
Enrollment was up from the previous year, and
the student feedback was extremely positive.
Other members of the Reference and Instructional Services Department also offered other
specialized research courses. Mr. Nann taught
Research Methods in American Legal History
where he was joined by Fred Shapiro, Associate Librarian for Access and Collections, and
Rare Book Librarian Mike Widener. Ryan Harrington, Head of Reference, taught Specialized
Research Methods in Foreign and International
Law. He was joined by Evelyn Ma, Reference
Librarian for Foreign and International Law,
and Mr. Nann. This course was especially well
enrolled, and students and faculty alike were
thrilled we offered it. Reference Librarian
Margaret Chisholm continued to offer Special-

porting scholarship, advocacy,

ized Legal Research in Corporate Law, and
each year students praise the elective. Empirical Research Librarian Sarah Ryan teamed up
with Scott Matheson, Associate Librarian for
Technical Services, to offer an innovative, new
course, Empirical Legal Research. (Please see
the Empirical Research section of this Annual
Report for a description of the course and more
information about empirical research offerings
from the library.)

Benjamin Eidelson, Third-Year Law student;

Ms. Krishnaswami also joined Noah Messing,

Lecturer in Legal Methods, to create a new
course, Written Advocacy and Legal Research.
This course combined legal research and
writing and enrolled first, second, and third
year law students as well as LLM students
planning to sit for the New York Bar. Students
were quite enthusiastic about this integrated
approach to legal research and writing.

INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT

SMALL GROUP LEGAL RESEARCH

INSTRUTION
The Law Library continued to offer its longstanding introduction to legal research for
first-semester law students in their Small
Groups through the Fifth Hour Legal Research
Program. Many librarians taught the 12 Small
Groups including Cate Kellett, Catalog and
Government Documents Librarian, Ms. Ryan,
Ms. Jefferson, Mr. Eiseman, Mr. Harrington,
Ms. Krishnaswami, Ms. Ma, Mr. Nann, and
Ms. VanderHeijden. This year we experimented
with streamlining the curriculum and posting
the materials on a Small Group Legal Research
portal for all students to access. This provided
more consistent and equal instruction for all
the Small Groups.

RESEARCH WORKSHOPS
The instructional team expanded its workshop
offerings this year and collaborated on a series
of sessions that were very well attended,
including:
Keep It Together: Organizational Tools to Manage
Your Research and Citations featuring Ms.
Jefferson and Mr. Harrington;
Tracking and Promoting Your Scholarship
featuring Ms. Ryan, Ms. Ma, and Mr.
VanderHeijden;
Publishing Your Article featuring Mr. Shapiro,
Ms. Ryan, Professor Cristina Rodrguez, and

Research Skills for Your Clerkship featuring Ms.

Krishnaswami. Ms. Jefferson, Adriana Mark,
Librarian for United States Court of Appeals
for Second Circuit, and Alexander Tabloff,
Second-Year Law student.
Prepare to Practice: International Law featuring
Mr. Harrington and Ms. Ma.

The Instructional Services unit also supported

the needs of the Yale Law School clinics by
providing individualized instruction to law
clinics on demand. For instance, Ms. Ma
provided substantial instruction to Professor
Jean Koh Peters Immigration Legal Services
Clinic. Ms. Jefferson offered significant,
targeted research instruction to the Veterans
Legal Services Clinic. This support typically
involves one-on-one meetings with students,
research presentations and classes to YLS
clinics, as well as the creation of online research
guides and tutorials.
Members of the Department also guestlectured in substantive law classes. Class
presentations included:
Researching legislative history for Professor
Abbe Gluck;
Researching an open universe legal
memorandum for Professor Rob Harrison; and
Researching treaties for Professor Michael
Reisman.
Finally, in an effort to provide more
individualized instruction to students beyond
the reference desk and classroomparticularly
students who are working on significant
scholarly research projectsreference librarians
regularly meet one-on-one with students.
Thus, the Instructional Services unit of
the Reference and Instructional Services
department engages our students in many ways
to provide effective and relevant legal research
instruction. Whether in a formal classroom
setting, a workshop, or one-on-one at the
reference desk, we prepare our students and
give them the tools they need to be productive
researchers in their work both at YLS and
beyond.

professional activities
Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Head of Instruction, was a panelist at multiple sessions
hosted by the Yale Law School Office of Student Affairs, including How to Write Your SAW
and Substantial, Preparing for the Bar Exam,
and How to Prepare for Class (with Noah
Messing). She was a panelist on Developing
Research Culture within LIS Master Degree
Programs at the Association for Library and
Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual
Conference. She was also an invited instructor
at an instructional session for the Litigation
Department at Cohen and Wolf and again at
the Connecticut Bar Association Seminar on
Zen and the Art of Googling. Ms. Krishnaswami was also selected to attend the American
Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Leadership
Academy for which she was awarded a grant
to attend from the AALL Government Documents Special Interest Section.

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reference services: fielding a world of questions

The Reference and Instruction Department helps students and faculty
with their questions, no matter the subject.

Jordan Jefferson, Mike VanderHeijden, Julie

Graves Krishnaswami, Sarah Ryan, Jason
Eiseman, Margaret Chisholm, Evelyn Ma, and
Ryan Harrington all serve on the Reference
and Instructional Services team and staff the
reference desk. They are assisted by colleagues
Fred Shapiro and Cate Kellett, who work in
other departments in the library.
The most popular form of reference requests,
however, does not come from in-person interaction at the reference desk. Instead it comes
from email directed to specific librarians. This
means the reference librarians have been able
to develop close working relationships with
faculty and students. These relationships carry
over from semester to semester.

Jordan Jefferson provides research assistance at the Reference Desk.

Each year, the Lillian Goldman Law Library

receives over 4,000 requests for reference
assistance. Librarians handled 4,666 requests
for fiscal year 2014. The length of time that
a reference librarian spends on a research
question varies from five to 240 minutes,
depending on complexity. Of the 4,666
requests, only roughly one quarter of the
questions were answered in fewer than five

minutes, meaning that many questions

required substantial time and problem solving.
Well over half of the requests required 15
minutes or more to resolve.
Patrons can obtain in-person reference service
at a desk that is staffed for 68 hours over the
course of seven days a week. The reference
desk is one of the most common forms of
interaction for reference requests. John Nann,

Patrons also contact librarians via chat, phone,

or they schedule appointment requests for indepth legal research support. Typically students
fill out an appointment request when they
want to spend significant time consulting with
a librarian about a project or paper.These requests, which are normally more complex than
typical reference questions, require the librarians to spend significant time preparing for the
meetings. Because there is no required legal
research and writing course at the law school,
many of these appointments become opportunities for instruction: the librarians work oneon-one with students to provide them with
the critical legal research skills.These requests
spike during various periods of the year, such
as October and November, and February and
March, when students begin to work on their
substantial papers.
The variety of questions that come to reference librarians at the Law Library is unparalleled and run the gamut, from researching the
legislative history of an act, to researching the
status of lethal autonomous robots under international law. The questions come from faculty
and students, many of whom publish articles
and books during their time at the Yale Law
School. Some students, on the other hand, simply need help locating an official publication for
a resource cited in a footnote of a law journal
article. Others are involved in one of the many
clinical opportunities at the law school.
The librarians who perform reference services
for faculty and students keep careful statistics
on the questions. Oftentimes similar-looking
questions will arise from students working
on the same clinic project or journal article.

When Mr. Harrington, who transitioned

to Head of Reference in the fall, identifies
clusters of similar-looking requests he uses
the information to provide training to student
groups or colleagues. Students welcome the
outreach and it allows the librarians to work
more effectively. Librarians then convert the
lesson to a blog post for future reference and to
provide a resource for researchers. For example,
after being asked for help with the citation 15
E. 3 Cor. 116, Mr. Nann drafted a blog post on
Medieval English Statutes. This enabled Mr.
Harrington, who was later asked to find
2 Edw. III, C. 6 to know immediately that the
citation referred to the second year of Edward
the Thirds reign.
Questions that come to the reference librarians
from the clinical programs are treated
differently. Because of client confidentiality,
the reference department assigns a librarian
to each individual clinic. This system also
gives librarians an opportunity to develop
a relationship with students and evaluate
the needs of the student. For example,
Ms. Krishnaswami was able to transition
a question from a student working on the
Capital Assistance Project into an opportunity
to teach the student how to use statutory
annotations and secondary sources for a Small
Group assignment. Librarians frequently use
the reference encounters as an opportunity to
teach legal research, and not just to answer the
questions on hand. The librarians view the
Yale Law School clinical program as one of the
best venues for teaching legal research because
the lessons come at a time when the students
need the information. In the fall, when
Supreme Court Clinic students approached
Mr. Nann for help with their research, he had
the opportunity to demonstrate the intricacies
of pulling court documents from PACER,
knowing they will need to use it on their own
in the future.

Faculty Services
Within the Reference Department, the Faculty
Services team (Sarah Kraus and Mr. VanderHeijden) handles document delivery and coordinates reference assistance, library orientations,
and trainings for faculty, faculty assistants, and
visiting faculty. The two-person team is small
but agile. Faculty need not complete request
forms or have memorized the librarys organizational chart in order to get help. A simple
email or discussion with Ms. Kraus or Mr. VanderHeijden sets the wheels in motion.
Ms. Kraus, the Faculty Services Assistant,
responded to over 7,500 requests for materials
of use to the faculty in their research and
instruction. The team defines document
delivery broadly. In addition to finding articles,
monographs, films and photographs, the
document delivery service includes hiring
researchers to review and scan manuscript
and archival materials in special collections
outside of Yale. Over the last two semesters,
the law library has hired researchers to work in
West Coast universities, the United Kingdoms
National Archives, the Utah Historical Society,
and the Archive of the Max Planck Society in
Berlin. Through the librarys robust document
delivery service, the staff obtained interesting
materials such as the Iowa Bar Examination
taken by Arabella Babb Mansfield (the first
woman in the United States to be admitted
to any bar); the Punishment Book of the 44th
Regiment of Foot (1779-1784); the testimony of
Trayvon Martins mother in the trial of George
Zimmerman; and materials from the papers
of the German philosopher and jurist, Carl
Schmitt.
When a professor submits a reference
question to Faculty Services rather than to the
reference desk or to individual librarians, Mr.
VanderHeijden and Ms. Kraus either answer
it directly or forward it to the professors

library liaison. The Faculty Services team

answered over two-thirds of the 1,258 reference
questions submitted by faculty during the 20132014 academic year. The remaining third of the
questions handled by the reference librarians
often involve significant time commitments and
resources. A sample of these projects include:
helping to create a custom data set of Supreme
Court statutory interpretation cases; gathering
English translations of Chinese pharmaceuticals
regulations; and research into whether by design,
Amazons search algorithm ranks anti-choice
abortion books higher than pro-choice books.
The Faculty Services team also offers training for
faculty assistants, provides information about
copyright clearance, and channels acquisition
and circulation questions to other library departments. Yale Law faculty members know that by
contacting Faculty Services, their questions and
concerns will be addressed regardless of where in
the library the relevant expertise resides.

Excerpt from Record Book of Punishments of the

44th Regiment of Foot (17791784)

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empirical legal research support: enhancing dataranged from obtaining longitudinal data on
professional school admissions to developing
templates for Yales human subjects protection/
institutional review board (IRB). Data was
obtained for faculty from AmLaw, Bureau of
Labor Statistics (U.S.), Census Bureau (U.S.),
China Bureau of Statistics, City of Chicago,
Internal Revenue Services (U.S.), Judicial Elections Data Initiative (JEDI), National Center for
Educational Statistics (U.S.), Supreme Court
Database, Transparency International, World
Bank, and other sources. A significant portion
of faculty support was devoted to training law
school research assistants in navigating Yale
Universitys data holdings, securing higher
performance computing resources, negotiating
with data providers such as state government
agencies, and mentoring undergraduate research assistants.
Stanley Milgram on a New York City subway. From Yale University Manuscripts & Archives. Permission to use obtained from
Alexandra Milgram.

Empirical legal research is a hallmark of the

Yale Law School. For many years, reference
librarians have assisted faculty and students in
finding data and securing statistical research assistance. Throughout the past decade, the Lillian Goldman Law Library has seen an increase
in data collection, empirical analysis, and study
design support requests. In fall 2012, Sarah
Ryan, PhD, joined the law library as the Empirical Research Librarian. Since then, the library has expanded its support for research and
teaching in law and economics, psychology,
sociology, and other social science disciplines.

STUDENT SUPPORT
Law school students met with law librarians
throughout the year to discuss constructing
hypotheses, finding datasets, collecting original
data, developing codebooks, and analyzing

data via SPSS, Stata, and R statistical software.

Dozens of students attended library workshops
on human subjects protection, survey design,
and law and social science publishing. In
Spring 2014, students enrolled in the librarys
Introduction to Empirical Legal Research
course completed study designs for projects
ranging from jury sentencing in death penalty
cases to classification of colonized African
states during the late nineteenth century.
They presented their significance and impact
statements to the class, and argued for their
selected research methodologies, which ranged
from interviewing United Nations delegates to
collecting salary data for European judges.

FACULTY SUPPORT
The faculty submitted more than 300 empirical research requests in 2013-2014. Requests

WEB RESOURCES FOR LEGAL

EMPIRICISTS
To better support students, faculty, alumni,
and other empirical legal researchers, the
library launched a new section of its website:
Empirical Legal Research Resources. Web
resources include an introductory essay on
statistics; a PowerPoint tutorial on finding and
using data and statistics; and how-to articles on
data management planning, building empirical
literature reviews using Web of Science,
administering surveys via Qualtrics and
Mechanical Turk, and other topics. The library
also disseminated information about grant
funding for empirical legal research, empirical
legal studies conferences, and other research
opportunities via library blog posts and student
Tip of the Week (TOTW) emails.

STANLEY MILGRAM CONFERENCE

In conjunction with the October 2013
Conference on the Legacy of Stanley Milgram
at Yale Law School, the library mounted an
exhibit connecting themes from the social
psychologists research on authority, group
behavior, and obedience to the work of Yale
University President Peter Salovey and Yale
Law School professors Tom Tyler, Tracey
Meares, and Dan Kahan. The exhibit included
Dr. Milgrams imagined library carrel, which
showcased documents held by Yale University
Manuscripts & Archives, and 1950s and
60s library books Dr. Milgram might have

-driven legal scholarship

professional activities
Sarah E. Ryan, Empirical Research Librarian,
delivered a continuing legal education seminar
(with Eric Hard) at the Connecticut Bar
Association annual meeting entitled Argue Like
a (Social) Scientist, and a presentation at the
CUNY Office of the Senior University Dean for
Academic Affairs staff retreat entitled The Role
and Importance of Qualitative Data. She was
a panelist at two Yale Law School workshops:
Tracking and Promoting Your Scholarship (with
Fred Shapiro and Evelyn Ma), and Strategies
for Publishing Your Article. She guest lectured
on navigating Yales Institutional Review
Board, using Qualtrics survey software, and
interpreting quantitative data tables in journal
articles (in an undergraduate Political Science
class). Ms. Ryan joined the founding editorial
board of Energy Research & Social Science
in 2013, and serves on committees at the
Connecticut Bar Association, Law Librarians
of New England, and American Association of
Law Librarians.

Books for Stanley Milgrams imagined library carrel were selected from
the references accompanying his mid-1960s published research.

used, retrieved from Yales Library Shelving

Facility. Additionally, Ms. Ryan compiled a
bibliography of books by and about Stanley
Milgram, and the library ordered a number of
related educational videos.

Lillian Goldman Law Library

Law Library Reading Room Fall 2013

Authority
Obedience
& Social Pressure

ENHANCING DATA SUPPORT AT YALE

UNIVERSITY & IN ACADEMIC LAW
LIBRARIES
Law librarians participated in data support
committees and events across the university,
including: the Data Management Planning
(DMP) committee, the Data & eScience Group
(DaEG), and Yale Day of Data. Ms. Ryan guest
lectured on interpreting statistical journal articles in a Yale University Political Science course,
delivered a presentation on qualitative research
methods at the City University of New York,
and conducted a continuing legal education
(CLE) seminar entitled Argue Like a (Social)
Scientist at the 2014 Connecticut Bar Association conference. Teresa Miguel-Stearns and Ms.
Ryan co-authored two articles on creating and
staffing empirical law librarian positions.

The Legacy of Stanley Milgram

at Yale University & Yale Law School

An Exhibit Featuring the scholarship of

Peter Salovey
Tom Tyler
Dan Kahan
Tracey Meares

The law library collectively received the Yale Law Women

Staff Excellence Award

President of Yale University &

Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
Macklin Fleming Professor of Law &
Professor of Psychology
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law &
Professor of Psychology
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law

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reference and technology:

technology projects
We aspire to provide

access to all the print

and online resources

needed for the research

and instruction of our
patrons.

Tapping Reeve (1744-1823), founder of the Litchfield Law School. Engraving by Peter Maverick, 1820, based on a
portrait by George Catlin. Reproduced courtesy of the Litchfield Historical Society.

The Reference and Instructional Services team

spearheaded several important technology
projects this year. Led by Jason Eiseman,
Head of Technology Services, and Reference
Librarian Jordan Jefferson, the team created
a site designed to help students find faculty
advisors, improved the Lillian Goldman Law
Librarys website, and enhanced and improved
other electronic collections.
Mr. Eiseman and Ms. Jefferson created the
Student Scholarship website, available to the
law school community. The site is designed to
help YLS students develop research ideas and
connect them with appropriate faculty advisors
for scholarly writing projects. Faculty can post
policies regarding advising students, as well
as ideas for research projects that would suit a
student writing project. Students use the site to
determine whether a particular faculty member

is an appropriate advisor for a prospective

project. Also, students use the site as an idea
generator: the research project ideas posted by
faculty will help students formulate a topic of
appropriate breadth and depth.
Mr. Eiseman also officially released the
Litchfield Law School Sources portal on the
eYLS Documents Collection Center. This
project brings together data collected about
the law students who attended the Litchfield
Law School (1784-1833) and includes a handful
of digitized notebooks. The legal history
community and the Litchfield Historical
Society has lauded the portal which serves as
a base for the ambitious Litchfield Law School
Student Notebooks project. The Notebooks
project, which consists of carefully digitized
versions of over 130 notebooks, is still in
progress and will be unveiled next year.

Mr. Eiseman and Ms. Jefferson also made

several significant improvements to the main
law library website. Portals were created to help
Ph.D students, first-year law students, and
those working on law journals find targeted
resources. These portals join the faculty portal
in supplying convenient access to the services
and resources that meet their specific needs.
In addition, Mr. Eiseman and Ms. Jefferson
responded to an increasing number of requests
for support on a variety of smaller library
projects. One initiative that demanded time
from Ms. Jefferson was the librarys digital
signage. She worked with members of the
Access Services team to help make it an
effective avenue for advertising instructional
sessions and other library programs.
Mr. Eiseman and Caitlyn Lam, Librarian for
Digital Resources, developed an innovative
process to keep the list of databases on the
website current and synchronized with the
data in the library catalog. This process draws
information from the catalog to the database
list, and ensures that information, and access,
will be as up to date as any that we have.
Responding to student requests, Mr. Eiseman
and Ms. Jefferson enhanced our websites Staff
Directory by adding pictures of library staff.
Traffic to the law library website from mobile
and tablet devices increased significantly. This
year, over 10,000 unique visitors accessed the
website using a mobile device or tablet, making
up almost 10% of all site traffic. Mr. Eiseman
and Ms. Jefferson implemented responsive
design, wherein the site recognizes the size of
the screen that the visitor is using and adjusts,
with no loss of data, so that it displays well on
the screen.

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librarian scholarship and publications

Mexico in Gaebler and Shea (eds.) sources of
state practice in international law, 2d ed. (Brill,
2014).
The Empirical Research Law Librarian, Making the
Case and Filling the Role, 24 Trends in Law Library
Management and Technology 1 (2014), with Sarah
Ryan.
How the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law
Librarians Impacts U.S. (regular column), FCIL-SIS
Newsletter.
Anne Myers
Acquisitions (regular column), Technical Services
Law Librarian.
Sarah Ryan
Rethinking Gender and Identity in Energy Studies, 1
Energy Research & Social Science 96 (2014).
Filling the Role of Empirical Research Law Librarian,
24 Trends in Law Library Management and
Technology 7 (2014), with Teresa Miguel-Stearns.
Navigating the Human Subjects Research Review
Process: The Rhyme and Reason of IRBs, 18(4) AALL
Spectrum 30 (2014).

Julian Aiken
The Yale Law Library, On Demand: A Holistic
Approach to Library Services, Legal Reference
Services Quarterly (2014), with Fred Shapiro
(forthcoming).
Ryan Greenwood
War and Sovereignty in Medieval Roman Law, 32(1)
Law & History Review 31 (2014).
Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog (25 postings).
Ryan Harrington
Not All LLMs Are Created Equal: Does your Library
Meet the Varied Needs of LLM Students?, 18(5) AALL
Spectrum 12 (2014).
Digital Decision: A Yale Law Library Case-Study
in technical conference cum workshop on
digital library using dspace: conference
proceedings (Rabari and Kumar eds., 2014).
Spain in Gaebler and Shea (eds.) sources of state
practice in international law, 2d ed. (Brill, 2014).
Core Databases: Law in international
encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences
(James D. Wright 2d. ed., forthcoming).
Jordan Jefferson
Gen X/Gen Y in Transition, 18(9) AALL Spectrum,
with Andrea Alexander and Trezlen Drake (2014)
(forthcoming).
Cate Kellett
Conference Report: American Indians: Access and
Collections, 28(2) Obiter Dicta 8 (2013).

Julie Krishnaswami
Law Libraries: Strategic Service in Ellyssa Kroski
(ed.) law librarianship in the digital age
(Scarecrow Press, 2013), with Scott Bailey.
Critical Information Theory: A New Foundation
for Teaching Regulatory Research in Susan
Nevelow Mart (ed.) boulder statements on legal
research education: the intersection of the
intellectual and practical skills (William S.
Hein, 2014).
Caitlyn Lam
Report of the ALCTS/LITA Electronic Resources
Management Interest Group Meeting. American
Library Association Midwinter Meeting,
Philadelphia, January 2014, 31(3) Technical Services
Quarterly 271 (2014).
Patrick Lavey
Member to Member (regular column), 18(1) AALL
Spectrum 43 (2013).
Evelyn Ma
Singapore in Gaebler and Shea (eds.) sources of
state practice in international law, 2d ed. (Brill,
2014).
Asian Law Interest Group Report, 28(1) FCIL-SIS
Newsletter 18 (2013).
Teresa Miguel-Stearns
Argentina in Gaebler and Shea (eds.) sources of
state practice in international law, 2d ed. (Brill,
2014).

The Challenges of Researching African High Court

Opinions: 10 Lessons Learned from a Four-country
Retrievability Survey, 32(4) Legal Reference
Services Quarterly 294 (2013).
Data, Statistics, or Secondary Statistical Analysis:
Helping Students Articulate and Acquire
the Numbers Theyre (Really) Seeking, 22(1)
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing
30 (2013).
Fred Shapiro
Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer?, Chronicle of
Higher Education (Chronicle Review) (April 28,
2014).
You Can Quote Them (regular column), Yale
Alumni Magazine.
oxford english dictionary (consultant on legal
terms and contributor).
blacks law dictionary,10th ed.
(ContributingEditor).
The Yale Law Library on Demand: A Holistic
Approach to Library Services, Legal Reference
Services Quarterly, with Julian Aiken
(forthcoming).
Who Wrote the Bluebook? (letter to the editor),
New York Times (Nov. 27, 2013).
Mike Widener
Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog (54 postings).

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rare book collection: growing collections and se

The books, rare offprints, and

microfilms of the Kuttner Institute

Library, many of which are not
held in any other American

library, attract large numbers of

interested scholars, who will now

be particularly happy to work in
the context of one of the great

North American collections of legal

historical and legal materials in the

Yale Law Library.

Anders Winroth, Director and Secretary of

the Kuttner Institute Library, and the Forst
Family Professor of History at Yale University

Fred Shapiro, Professor Anders Winroth, and Susan Karpuk

unpack the library of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of
Medieval Canon Law.

Collections
The library of the Stephan Kuttner Institute
is already drawing canon law scholars from
around the world to the Lillian Goldman
Law Library. For the second year in a row, a
group of rare English law books from Anthony
Taussig was the outstanding acquisition.
On September 13, 2013, the library of the
Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon
Law arrived at its new home in the Lillian
Goldman Law Library. This outstanding
collection of research materials draws scholars
from around the world. It contains over
2,000 monographs and 15,000 offprints
from the private library of Stephan Kuttner,
the Institutes founder and one of the 20th
centurys most influential scholars of medieval
law, as well as microfilms of approximately
670 medieval manuscripts. The move of the

Institutes library was the fruit of collaboration

between the law library and Anders Winroth,
the Forst Family Professor of History at Yale,
who serves as the Secretary of the Institute.
The Institutes library will remain in the Lillian
Goldman Law Library for the next 25 years,
with an option to renew the arrangement.
Kuttner founded the Institute of Medieval
Canon Law in 1955 at Catholic University of
America. In 1964 the Institute moved to Yale
University, then to the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, and then to its most recent home at
the University of Munich.
A generous grant from the Oscar M.
Ruebhausen Fund enabled the Lillian Goldman
Law Library to acquire an additional 189
volumes from the collection of Anthony
Taussig, the largest private collection of rare
English law ever assembled. The selection

focused on genres that our faculty identified as

the most valuable for research. These included
over 40 justice of the peace manuals from the
16th to 18th centuries, a dozen titles on the
English poor laws, and over a hundred titles
relating to the practice of law (court rules,
practice guides, directories of attorneys, etc.).
Several of the books are the only copies in the
U.S., and a few are the only known copies.
Included is the first edition of Fitzherberts
LOffice et Auctorytie des Justyces de Peas (1538),
and Arbitrium Redivivum (1694), the first
English book on the law of arbitration.
Other significant purchases included almost
three dozen pamphlets relating to the famous
1820 trial of Queen Caroline, the consort of
George IV; a 4-volume collection of briefs and
transcripts from the 1888 contempt trial of the
California judge and gunfighter David S. Terry;
a dozen compilations of early Italian municipal
statutes; and Webbs Office and Authority of a
Justice of Peace (1736), one of the first American
justice of the peace manuals. In two auctions
of the Los Angeles County Law Librarys rare
book collection, the library acquired 20 lots,
including the first Irish justice of the peace
manual (1638), early laws of Venice and Florence, and nine titles on English libel law.
The Rare Book Collection continued to
benefit from the generosity of donors. Lois
Montbertrand 85 donated two early American
lawyers letterbooks, another 15 law-related
postcards from the early 20th century,
several items of French legal ephemera, and
A.E. Grimkes Letters to Catherine E. Beecher
(1838), an influential anti-slavery work. San
Antonio attorney Farley Katz donated six rare
publications of Italian laws from the 16th and
17th centuries. Gloria Cohen, the widow of
the late Professor Morris L. Cohen, donated
37 volumes that represent two of Professor
Cohens great passions: law-related childrens
books and legal bibliography.

fellowship
Of all the major projects this past year in the
Rare Book Collection, the most important
was the inaugural Yale Law Library Rare Book
Fellowship. Ryan Greenwood was chosen
from an extremely competitive pool of almost
100 applicants, and began the nine-month
fellowship on August 15. Under the direction
of Rare Book Librarian Mike Widener, Mr.

erving scholarship
Greenwood was trained in all aspects of rare
book librarianship: acquisitions, cataloging,
reference services, stacks maintenance,
preservation, outreach, and exhibits. He
spent a week working at Yale University
Librarys Manuscripts and Archives division,
and another week at the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library. He accompanied
Mr. Widener to the antiquarian book fairs
in Boston and New York City. He worked
extensively with Fred Shapiro, Associate
Librarian for Collections and Access Services,
to select Roman law titles from the Rare
Book Collection and the general collection
for digitization in a new Making of Modern
Law module. He curated one exhibit, Armorial
Bindings, and co-curated another exhibit with
Mr. Widener, 350 Years of Rebellious Lawyering,
and helped mount the others. In addition, Mr.
Greenwood served on the librarys Strategic
Planning Committee. As a mark of the
Fellowships success, when it ended on May
15, Mr. Greenwood had been appointed the
new Rare Book Librarian at the University of
Minnesota Law Library.

exhibits
The primary Fall 2013 exhibition was Built
by Association: Books Once Owned by Notable
Judges and Lawyers, from Bryan A. Garners
Collection. Mr. Garner, the worlds leading legal
lexicographer, loaned an impressive selection
of books inscribed by such leading figures
as Supreme Court Justices John Jay, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and
William O. Douglas, and by Clarence Darrow,
the most famous trial lawyer in American
history. Mr. Widener served as Mr. Garners
assistant curator for the exhibit. The library
hosted a well-attended exhibit talk by Mr.
Garner on December 9, and also published a
catalogue of the exhibit.

A companion exhibit by Rare Book Fellow

Ryan Greenwood, Armorial Bindings, displayed
eight books from the Rare Book Collection to
show the importance of armorial bindings for
provenance research.
The University Librarys Conservation and
Exhibition Services staff curated the Spring
2014 exhibit, Reflections on Bindings: Using
New Imaging Technology to Study Historical
Bindings. Using four 16th-century books from
the librarys Rare Book Collection as case
studies, the exhibit showed how Reflectance
Transformation Imaging (RTI) offers exciting
new possibilities for safely capturing a books
surface decorations, revealing details that
cannot be seen using traditional methods
or the naked eye. Exhibit curators were
Chief Conservator Christine McCarthy and
Conservation Assistants Fionnuala Gerrity,
Ansley Joe, and Karen Jutzi. On April 23,
they gave a presentation on the exhibit to an
audience of over 60 people in the Sterling
Memorial Librarys lecture hall.

projects
A major digitization project got underway
this year to digitize the librarys collection
of student notebooks from the Litchfield
Law School, the nations first law school.
The project is funded by a grant from the
Cromwell Foundation and is under the general
direction of Professor John Langbein. The
role of Mr. Widener and Mr. Greenwood has
been to review the physical condition of the
notebooks, prepare them for shipment to the
scanning contractor, and review the scanned
images. Jason Eiseman, Head of Technology
in the library, is managing the project; Caitlyn
Lam, Librarian for Digital Resources, has been
brought on recently to assist as well.

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Ryan Greenwood and Cesar Zapata carefully unpack the Kuttner

Institute material.

Another of Mr. Greenwoods major projects

was to revive and redesign the Rare Book
Collections website, which went live in May,
shortly before the end of his fellowship. It
provides detailed descriptions of the collections
major holdings, information for visitors, and
links to our online resources. These resources
include an ever-growing Flickr site containing
images of books and manuscripts; in 2013-14
we added 1,200 images to the site which now
totals 3,000 images. The Yale Law Library Rare
Books Blog published 69 postings: 42 by Mr.
Widener, 26 by Mr. Greenwood, and one by
library intern Kim Castellano.
Cataloging is a critical tool for making the
collection discoverable and accessible for
researchers. Having last year cleared out a
large backlog of uncataloged books, Rare Book
Cataloger Susan Karpuk has moved on to
other cataloging projects to make the collection
more accessible. She cleaned up and classified
the 2,000-volume Faculty Collection. She
cataloged the second acquisition of Taussig
books (189 volumes) and the Farley P. Katz
Collection of Italian City-State Laws & Decrees
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rare book collection

( continued)

I, as all the University of Jordan delegation,

am very impressed with the work you do at the
Yale Law Library. Frankly speaking, visiting
the library and specifically the rare book section
was my favorite part.
Mohammad F. A. Nsour, Assistant Professor of Law,
University of Jordan

(266 volumes). She has created records in our

online catalog for at least half of the Kuttner
Institutes library, and has begun plans to
catalog the Institutes valuable microfilm
collection. She is well into a project to identify
the original collection of early Italian statutes,
the outstanding acquisition of 1945 that
forms the nucleus of our world-class collection.
She coordinated the move of 524 volumes of
early modern legal dissertations to a secure
stacks area. Finally, Ms. Karpuk is well on the
way to eliminating the backlog of uncataloged
manuscript material.

visitors
The past year was a busy one for tours. They
included an open house for the Law School
Alumni Weekend (Oct. 4-5), the president
of Ewha University (Oct. 11), law professors
from the University of Jordan (Nov. 12 and
Apr. 7), Professor Anders Winroths graduate
seminar in medieval legal history (Nov.
18), Linkage students (Jan. 29), the Library
Staff Association (Mar. 20), admitted Yale
Law School students (Apr. 10-11), and the
Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
(Apr. 29).

publicity
The Rare Book Collection was featured in
several online videos. An interview of Mr.
Widener on the collections U.S. constitutional
law holdings was prepared for Professor
Akhil Reed Amars online Coursera course on
constitutional law and has been viewed over
8,000 times. Noted author and legal scholar
Mark Weiner featured Mr. Widener and Rare
Book Collection materials in four videos on his
Worlds of Law blog. The Sound of One Book
Clapping spotlights the librarys copy of the first
printed English law book, the Abbreviamentum
Statutorum (1481); The Beauty of the Code is
a speculation on the relation between how a
book looks and the legal ideals it embodies;
Blackstone Goes Hollywood explores Blackstones
legacy via an interview in our Paskus-Danziger
Rare Book Room with Professor Wilfrid Prest
of the University of Adelaide; and in Water,
Paper, Law our early Italian books on water law
inspire thoughts about water, law, rare books,
and the passage of time.

professional activities
Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian, concluded
his term as Chair of the Legal History and Rare
Books Special Interest Section by presiding at
the sections 2013 business meeting, during the
annual meeting of the American Association
of Law Libraries. As Immediate Past Chair, he
served the remainder of the year on the sections
Executive Committee. Mr. Widener served on the
search committee for the Lewis Walpole Librarian,
Yale University.
Ryan Greenwood, inaugural Rare Book Fellow,
attended the annual meeting of the American
Society for Legal History and blogged on the
conference for the Legal History Blog. Mr.
Greenwood lectured to a class at Trinity College
in Hartford on Roman law, and also gave a public
presentation of his paper, Which Rights? Whose
Justice? Natural Rights and the Legal Tradition,
1300-1700, to faculty and students at Trinity
College. Mr. Greenwood also delivered a paper
on self-defense in medieval Roman and canon
law at the annual conference of the Renaissance
Society. An interview with Mr. Greenwood was
published in the Bright Young Librarians series on
the blog of Fine Books & Collections Magazine.
Mr. Greenwood concluded his fellowship at the
law library with a presentation to the library
staff about the projects he worked on during the
course of his fellowship.

PUBLICATIONS CITING
RARE BOOK COLLECTION SOURCES
DePace, Kelhi. Franciscus Zabarella: A Theory
for Unity, 3 Auburn University Montgomery
Historical Review 32 (Winter 2014).
Garner, Bryan A. built by association: an
exhibition of books once owned by notable judges and lawyers from bryan a.
garners collection (New Haven: Lillian
Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, 2013).
Goodrich, Peter. legal emblems and the
art of law: obiter depicta as the vision
of governance (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2014).
Ecklund, John E. the origins of western
law from athens to the code napoleon
(2 vols.; Constance Cryer Ecklund, ed.; Clark,
NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2014).
Holiday Greeting Card: Yale 2013, 17 The Green
Bag (2nd Series) 2 (2013).
Parrillo, Nicholas R. against the profit
motive: the salary revolution in
american government, 1780-1940 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2013).

technology
(continued)

technical services
(continued)

professional activities

professional activities

Jason Eiseman, Head of Technology Services,

co-presented Connecting the Dots: Improving
User Experience Through Continuous Feedback
and Action at the Conference for Law School
Computing, and Hacking the Litchfield Law
School at the Connecticut Library Association
(CBA) Annual Meeting. He is also the ViceChair of the Law Librarians Section of the CBA.

Susan Karpuk, Rare Book Cataloger, attended

the annual meeting of the American
Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and
the New York Technical Services Librarians
meeting. Ms. Karpuk also participated in
several workshops on new cataloging rules
covering serials, archival materials, and art
research materials.

Jordan Jefferson, Reference Librarian, gave

three presentations at the 2013 Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Law
Libraries (AALL). At the Poster Session, she
presented, Assessing for the Future: Using
LSSSE Consortium Questions for Comparative
Evaluation: Prize Buckets, Pop Culture Shots,
and Other Ways to Remind Students Legal
Research Is All Business Upfront and All Party
Down the Back!; at a pre-conference Workshop
she presented Advocate Your Value: Practical
Marketing for Busy Librarians; and, at the Cool
Tools Cafe she presented, Happily Ever(note)
After. She spoke at the Law Librarians of New
England (LLNE), Fall Meeting on Innovation
and Inspiration for New Technologies: Analytics
and Usability in Web Design. At the Yale ITS
Unconference: Users First!, she moderated
the panel, Using Google Analytics to Inform
Decision Making. She presented Hacking
the Litchfield Law School at the Connecticut
Library Association Annual Conference; she copresented an AALL Webinar entitled Whats in
Your Toolbox?: Tools to Organize Your Research,
Scholarship, or Professional Writing; and, at the
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
(CALI) Conference, she co-presented
Connecting the Dots: Improving User Experience
Through Continuous Feedback and Action.

Cate Kellett, Cataloger, attended AALL where

she moderated a program on classification of
Native American law, served as vice-chair and
newsletter editor of the Native Peoples Law
Caucus, and was elected Member-at-Large of
the Government Documents Special Interest
Section. She was elected vice-president of
the Southern New England Law Librarians
Association (SNELLA). She attended and
reported on the joint SNELLA/Law Librarians
of New England (LLNE) meeting focused on
American Tribal Law and Culture.
Caitlyn Lam, Digital Resources Librarian,
attended AALL and, as Co-Chair of the ALCTS/
LITS Electronic Resources Management
Interest Group, organized and moderated
Cloud-based Systems and ERM Roundtable
at the Midwinter meeting of the American
Library Association (ALA). She attended
training in process mapping and project
management at NERCOMP and presented at
the Innovative Users Group (IUG) meeting.
Patrick Lavey, Lead Catalog Librarian, attended
AALL and participated in numerous training
sessions and workshops covering new
cataloging rules and Bibframe, a developing
standard for storing bibliographic data.
Scott Matheson, Associate Librarian for
Technical Services, attended the annual
meetings of AALL and SNELLA/LLNE, and was
a panelist at the Cloud-based Systems and
ERM Roundtable at ALAs Midwinter meeting.
Mr. Matheson attended a workshop on library
assessment, presented on SQL automation
at IUG, was elected vice-chair of the IUG, and
was named to the Depository Library Council,
an advisory body to the Federal Depository
Library Program.
Anne Myers, Head of Acquisitions, attended
the Charleston Conference on Library
Acquisitions. Ms. Myers is now a regular
columnist for Technical Services Law Librarian
where she writes about developments in
acquisitions. She received a certificate in
genealogical research from Boston University
in May 2014.

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reading room exhibits: teaching via objects, graph

Summer Exhibit
The summer 2013 exhibit, entitled: Pacifism
and the American Civil Rights Movement: A
Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the March
on Washington was held over from the summer
through Octobers Alumni Weekend, in
response to praise from the Dean of the Yale
University School of Art and requests from
Yale Law School alumnae who had attended
the 1963 March. Near the exhibit case, at a
comfortable listening station in the reading
room, exhibit-viewers could hear recordings
of speeches from the March and also review a
notebook containing facsimiles of documents,
budgets, handbooks, and flyers from the 1963
event. These facsimiles have been added to
the law librarys website. Reference Librarian
Margaret Chisholm prepared this exhibit, as
well as a reserve list of reading materials that
accompanied it.

This year the law librarys program of Reading Room exhibits featured

three different exhibitions. Coordinated by Margaret Chisholm, Chair of the

Communications Committee, each display used selected books, labels, text, charts,
maps, and other items to spark interest in law-related materials contained in the
librarys collection. Two of the exhibits also featured sound.

hics, and interpretive text

Autumn/Winter Exhibit

Mid-Winter Exhibit

professional activities

Sarah Ryan, Empirical Research Librarian,

prepared an autumn/winter exhibit, entitled:
Authority, Obedience, and Social Pressure: The
Legacy of Stanley Milgram at Yale University and
Yale Law School. This exhibit opened in coordination with a Conference on the Legacy of Stanley
Milgram, held Saturday October 26, 2013, at
Yale Law School. The exhibit explored the
connections that were outlined at the one-day
conference, between the work of Prof. Milgram
and the work of Yale University President and
Professor of Psychology Peter Salovey. It also
showed parallels between the work of Yale
Law School professors Tom Tyler, Dan Kahan,
and Tracey Meares. At a portable study carrel,
next to the exhibit case, viewers could look at
journal reprints and reproductions of dozens of
letters that Prof. Milgram exchanged with editors and colleagues across the country during
the early-to-mid-1960s. The display also featured audio files of Prof. Milgram debriefing a
research subject and a paper guide to Milgram
resources at libraries across Yale. Ms. Ryan created an online subject guide for the conference
and has also has written about this exhibit on
the law library blog.

Anne Myers, Head of Acquisitions, prepared

the years third reading room exhibit for midwinter through summer display. Entitled,
Movies in Court: Movies Involved in Lawsuits,
the exhibit case contained the visually arresting DVD/VHS containers for eleven films and
an interpretive label for each. Also displayed
were a toy shark, a replica of an autographed
screenplay, a few rhinestone-spattered theatrical props, and the 2012 book entitled, The Little
Book of Movie Law, by Carol Robertson, an
American Bar Association publication. Each
label indicated the issues addressed by a court
in litigation involving the movie, which ranged
from copyright infringement to censorship or
obscenity to campaign finance to labor and employment. Films displayed included Disturbia;
Rear Window; The Perfect Storm; Deep Throat;
Amistad; Hillary, The Movie; Black Swan; and
Jaws. Library users could charge out any of the
movies, all of which are contained in the law
librarys extensive collection of fiction and nonfiction films.

Reference Librarian Margaret Chisholm chairs

the librarys Communications Committee.
She gave an invited talk at Osgoode Hall Law
School (Toronto) during the schools Diversity
Week. Her topic, Bayard Rustin: Non-Violent
Warrior for Justice/ Pacifist Champion for
Diversity emerged from her Reading Room
exhibits, which have focused in recent years
on Pacifism and the American Civil Rights
Movement and especially Bayard Rustin. As a
result of her work, Ms. Chisholm was invited
to several receptions in Bayard Rustins honor,
including one sponsored by the National
Black Justice Coalition and the law firm of
Kirkland & Ellis. This event celebrated Barack
Obamas awarding of the Presidential Medal
of Freedom to Mr. Rustin, posthumously,
the previous day. Ms. Chisholm attended
a similar dinner-reception in Mr. Rustins
hometown, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as
well as a celebration of Mr. Rustins 102nd
birthday at the Bayard Rustin High School
in West Chester. She recently attended an
international Conference of Quaker Historians
and Archivists (CQHA) focusing on Quakerism
and Non-Violence.

Also featured in the exhibit was the film Raging

Bull, which was the focus of a case pending
before the United States Supreme Court during
mid-winter, when Ms. Myers first staged the
exhibit. In July 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court
decided the case in favor of the plaintiffs,
by reinstating their copyright suit, in which
they requested damages in a claim they filed
within the three-year statute of limitations.
Defendants had asserted laches, on the grounds
that plaintiffs had delayed in filing their suit.
Petrella v. MGM, Inc., 572 U.S. __ (2014).

BAYARD RUSTIN
Non-Violent Warrior for Justice / Pacifist Champion for Diversity

Sponsored by the Lillian Goldman Law Library

AND THE
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:

AN EXHIBIT IN CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF

BAYARD RUSTINS BIRTH (19122012)

Located: 3rd Floor Reading Room, Yale Law Library, 127 Wall Street

For a complete list of all the

materials on Reserve for this exhibit,
please search MORRIS:
Course Reserves Reading Room exhibit
or Smartphone users scan code:

Speaker:

Margaret Chisholm, J.D.,M.L.S.

Lecturer, Yale Law School

Friday, February 28
1:30pm - 3pm
Room 1003
Osgoode Hall Law School
Ignat Kaneff Building
Refreshments and Lunch Will be Provided

To watch a brief video

about Brother Outsider:
Life of Bayard Rustin.
Scan the QR code with your Smart Device.

Organizing Groups: Black Law Students Association (BSLA), Distinguished Speaker Series Organizing Committee (DSSOC), Osgoode Hall Deans Office, Legal and Lit, Osgoode Hall Law Union (OHLU), Osgoode Society Against Institutional Injustice (OSAII), OUTlaws

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strategic plan 20142018

III. Be thoughtful stewards of our superb
collections and resources

a. Conserve exceptional items in need of

repair

b. Preserve our resources for future

generations of scholars

c. Protect our resources by ensuring

appropriate security and facilities

d. Migrate our resources to new formats to

ensure they remain accessible

e. Optimize local and remote storage space

IV. Make our world-class resources easily

discoverable and accessible

The Strategic Planning team presents the 20142015 plan to Law Librarian Blair Kauffman )center). Left to right:
Ryan Harrington (Chair), Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Sarah Ryan, Blair Kauffman Scott Matheson, Julian Aiken.

vision

c. Effectively communicate, advertise, and

market our services and instructional
offerings

d. Assess and enhance the effectiveness of

services and instruction

e. Evaluate and eliminate inefficient or

undervalued services

To be the best academic law library in the world

mission
The Lillian Goldman Law Library supports the
rich educational and scholarly programs of Yale
Law School and Yale University. We contribute to
global legal research, scholarship, and education.
Our outstanding collections and exemplary
services make the library a centerpiece of the Yale
Law School experience.

II. Collect quality resources that meet the needs

of current faculty and students, as well as
future generations of scholars

we are

agile
creative

i. comprehensive collection of U.S.

scholarly law-related monographs

responsive

ii. preeminent collection of rare and

historical materials

iii. superb collection of international law

iv. expanding collection of foreign and

comparative legal resources

service focused
data-driven
respectful
transparent
accountable
green

b. Maintain a dynamic collection

development philosophy informed by
faculty and student interest and staff
expertise

c. Consider evolving trends in scholarly

communication and technology when
making acquisition decisions

d. Collaborate with other libraries to

maximize access to resources

goals and objectives

I. Provide highly valued, relevant services to our
faculty and students

a. Prioritize library services based on value to

the community

b. Offer classes, workshops, trainings, and

tools to meet patron needs

a. Acquire materials that enrich our:

a. Increase findability of local, consortial, and

worldwide resources to our researchers

b. Facilitate simple remote access to our

print and digital collections

c. Implement new discovery tools while

maintaining our scholarly catalogue

d. Effectively communicate, advertise, and

market available resources

V. Make the library a delightful place to visit and

be

a. Make every patron feel welcome

b. Tailor physical space to the evolving needs

of patrons and staff

c. Maintain an inviting and useful online

presence

d. Create policies that balance the needs of

our community members

VI. Empower staff to thrive and become leaders

in our field

a. Foster a culture of innovation,

collaboration, and creativity

b. Recruit and retain a diverse staff to enrich

our library and profession

c. Provide suitable resources and support

for professional engagement and
advancement

d. Facilitate opportunities for staff to

broaden experience by working in other
units, departments, and libraries

e. Encourage a healthy work-life balance

f. Employ staff expertise to train the next

generation of law librarians

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